A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS.
his left paw a quince-apple, stalked and leaved of the last. When the Emperor
Robert of Bavaria entered Italy to dispossess Galeazzo of Milan, the great Sforz amet
with his Florentine troops ; the Emperor perceiving Sforxa's arms on his stan-
dard, told him jestingly, that his lion's paw would spoil the quince ; for which,
says Menestrier, the lion of his family was represented afterwards without claws,
and blazoned morne.
The lion is said to be evire, by the French, when the marks of the masculine
sex are not seen.
A lion coue, is when he cowardly claps his tail between his legs, contrary to the
natural fierceness of the lion, Plate XI. fig.
2. 1 have seen lions so painted in many
coats of arms, in our old books of blazon, which are now otherwise presented, by
making the tail turn up upon the lion's back.
The lion, in armories, is sometimes represented with two tails as the emblem of
magnanimity and strenuausness, say the- English, which they call a double queue or
forked tail ; the French say, a la queue fourchee or double queue; and, because the
two tails are ordinarily placed saltier-ways on the back of the lion, they say queue
fourchee posee en sautoir, and the Latins, duplex cauda in decussim trajecta. Fig. 3.
The Lion of the kingdom of Bohemia is represented with two tails, which was
occasioned (as Menestrier says) by a jest of the Emperor Frederick, who was de-
him new
sirous to perpetuate the valour of Ladislaus II. King of Bohemia, by giving
arms, viz. gules, a lion rampant argent,
as more suitable to his valour than his old
armorial figure, an eagle cheque, or and sable, which is now the bearing of the
country of Murcia ; but the lion was represented coue, that is, with his tail between
his legs, which, being displayed before the soldiers, they refused to follow,
calling it an ape ; the Emperor told them he should cause help that, and ordered
the lion to be painted with two tails, and with a crown on his head ; thus blazon-
ed by Favin,
ne d'or.
de gueules a un lion d'argent a la queue fourchee, et croisse, et couron-
SIMON MONTFORT Earl of LEICESTER, who married Eleanor, second daughter to
King John of England, carried gules, a lion rampant queue fourchee argent, as on a
stone in the Abbey of Westminster, says Sandford in his History. And an English
book of late, entitled the Art of Heraldry, gives sometimes examples of a
lion with two tails, borne by Englishmen, as Sir CHRISTOPHER WANDESF'ORD of Kirk-
lington, in Yorkshire, Baronet, or, a lion rampant double queue azure.
The name of KINGSTON, sable, a lion rampant double queue or.
The name of BROOMHALL, azure ; a lion rampant double queue or. I have met
with no such bearing with us.
I shall here add one instance of a lion with wings, as that in the arms of the re-
public of Venice, azure, a lion winged or, seiant, holding between his fore paws a
book open, argent; on which are these words, pax tibi Marce Evangelista meus ; it
is called St Mark's lion, the emblem of the Evangelist St Mark, the patron saint
of Venice.
A LION SALIENT.
THE posture of a lion salient is almost the same with rampant ; but when
salient, he is less erect, as his
position were bend-ways. In this position he is said
to prosecute his prey leaping. The French, German, and Latin heralds, make no
difference between salient and rampant, but blazon it lion, or lion rampant. And
in our old herald books I find sometimes one coat blazoned with a lion rampant,
and at other times .it is called a lion salient, as that of Buchanan of that Ilk, or,
a lion salient sable, degutted of the first, within a double tressure flowered and
counter-flowered of the second ; but in our New Register, or, a lion rampant sable,
armed and langued gules, within a double tressure, counter-flowered of the second ;
crest, a hand holding up a ducal cap, tufted on the top with a rose gules, within a
laurel branch, disposed orle-ways, proper : supported by two falcons, proper; armed
urgent, chessed and belled gules : motto, Clarior bine bonos.
BUCHANAN of Lenny, now representer of Buchanan of that Ilk, carried the arms
of Buchanan, quartered with the arms of Lenny, sable, on a cheveron between